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LiDAR map of Brightling
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Brightling, a parish in East Sussex, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 17 recorded places here: 13 listed buildings, 3 places recorded in Wikidata, 1 registered park or garden. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 50 m and 149 m above sea level; its highest point is about 196 m.
Brightling on the LiDAR. Bare-earth LiDAR, drawn in your browser by the RVT toolbox (the Relief Visualization Toolbox, ZRC SAZU). It opens on Combined VAT; the panel holds all seventeen of its methods, each with its settings. LiDAR: Environment Agency, 1 m composite DTM, Open Government Licence. More about this map
The Ordnance Survey six-inch map of Brightling, 1888–1913. The Ordnance Survey’s six-inch-to-the-mile map, second edition, surveyed between 1888 and 1913 and held by the National Library of Scotland, laid over today’s map with the paper colour removed, so the field boundaries, place names and antiquities the surveyors drew sit on the ground. More about this map
Roman roads near Brightling. The Roman road network compiled by the Roman Roads Research Association (Digital Britannia), with each road’s grade of evidence, and the Roman forts, camps and towns along them. More about this map
Aerial archaeology at Brightling. Historic England’s Aerial Archaeology Mapping: banks, ditches, enclosures and field systems traced by archaeologists from aerial photographs and LiDAR, coloured by period. More about this map
See Brightling with everything Waystone has
The full map lays the LiDAR under the Ordnance Survey's six-inch maps of 1843–1913, the Roman road network, Historic England's aerial survey and the 17 recorded places in the parish, with search, the sun dial, the ground probe and the cross-section tool, for all of England and Wales. Free, with nothing to install.
- County
- East Sussex, England
- Area
- 19.8 km²
- Recorded places
- 17
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 50–149 m above sea level; highest 196 m
- ONS code
- E04003800
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Brightling ParkRegistered park or garden
Listed buildings
- Brightling Park
- The Parish Church of St Thomas a Becket
- The Mausoleum of John Fuller in the Churchyard
- Brightling Needle
- The Observatory
- The Summerhouse or Alcove at Brightling Park
- The Temple at Brightling Park to the South
- The Steps and Entrance to the Church Yard
- Glazier's Forge
- The Fuller's Arms Inn
- The Old School
- The Saw Mill
- The Stables of the Fuller's Arms Inn
Other recorded places
- Dallington ForestWikidata place
- Willingford MeadowsWikidata place
- BrightlingWikidata place
Nearest places with their own page
- Medieval moated site, Glottenham Castle4.8 km east
- Robertsbridge Abbey8.1 km east
- Battle Abbey8.6 km south-east
Neighbouring parishes
Reading the LiDAR
The terrain model has trees, crops and buildings removed, so banks, ditches, mounds, old field systems and hollow ways show as relief. Many are modern or natural: check the records and the old Ordnance Survey map in the app. How to read a LiDAR map. Scheduled monuments are protected by law; use public rights of way.
Sources
- LiDAR: Environment Agency, 1 m composite DTM, Open Government Licence.
- Heights: Waystone, from the same LiDAR sampled about every 12 m inside the boundary; 'most of the ground' is the middle 80% of those heights; metres above Ordnance Datum Newlyn.
- Parish boundary: Office for National Statistics, Parishes and Non Civil Parished Areas (December 2024), Open Government Licence. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2025.
- Recorded places: the national heritage records (Historic England, Cadw, Coflein and others) as held by Waystone.
Last updated 2026-10-16.